Electronics Amazon Recast Internal SSD Mod Recently bought the 1TB 4 channel tuner model of Amazon Recast during the Prime Day sale. The unit itself is a very nice network tuner and I mainly bought the more expensive model
Raspberry Pi SteamLink Test on the Raspberry Pi 4 Given the inclusion of USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, and a faster Wifi connection in general it appears that the Pi 4 B may be the ideal Steam game streaming box so I
Audio Speaker Re-foaming This should be a fairly short post about a recent first time experience re-foaming the woofers in a set of speakers I picked up from the local flea market for 5 bucks. The
Turntables Technics SL-Q3 Refurbishing The Technics SL-Q3 is a fully automatic, quartz locked, direct drive turntable that was on the market between 1979-1980 (at least according to its listing on vinylengine.com). Its a pretty solid unit
Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi Zero W Beer Sign This is a project that I completed a while ago as a gift to give to a friend. Unfortunately some pictures were lost along the way so I'll try to be as detailed
Turntables Audio-Technica Sound Burger Refurbishing The Audio-Technica AT-727 Sound Burger was a portable belt drive turntable sold in Japan, the UK, and Europe in the 1980s. It's generally popular among current collectors due to the idea that it
Coding Misc Ghost Blog Improvements The vanilla Ghost install generally requires some tweaks to fully meet the needs of its user or organization. Here are some modification I made to this blog in no particular order. This page
Arch Linux Ghost Blog on Arch Linux with Systemd-Nspawn This blog is powered by a piece of Node.js software called "Ghost". Unfortunately the official way of getting a production setup up and running is only really supported on Ubuntu and even
Audio Building a Stereo to Mono Channel Summing Box Playing 78RPM records and monophonic vinyl records pressing from the mid-1960s-ish and earlier on modern stereo turntables presents some issues. It should be well known already that 78RPM records require a different size
Bikes Repairing a Bikes Rack Mount Points with Helicoil Inserts I recently had a lot of success repairing the rack mount points on one of my bikes seat stays using this method, but found few sources initially that actually showed its usage on
